Benoit: I am the greatest technical wrestler in the history of the WWE!
Investigators in Atlanta, Georgia think that Benoit strangled his wife, and smothered his son. On Monday, they believe Chris hung himself.
Weight 220 pounds.
On the October 13, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, He beat Mr. Kennedy to become the U.S. Champion.
On October 8, 2006, He beat William Regal at No Mercy. This was his first match after being gone for 5 months.
Chris Benoit won the WWE United States Championship in 25.5 seconds, the shortest match held for that title that resulted in the championship changing owners. He also holds the record for quickest title defense, which was 22.5 seconds.
Benoit had met his best friend, Eddie Guerrero, in a match in Japan, when he utilized an Enziguri kick, and knocked him out cold, thus starting a friendship lasting over ten years.
Benoit is the second person to have become a WCW and WWE triple crown champion. Bret Hart accomplished this before him.
Chris Benoit's current pay per view/supercard record currently is 56 wins, 51 losses, and 2 no contests.
Chris Benoit performs his signature "cut-throat" taunt when he about to attempt one of his signature moves, the diving headbutt.
He and Brock Lesnar defeated Team Angle in a 2-on-3 Handicap Match at Backlash 2003.
May 21, 2006- He beat Finlay at Judgement Day.
May 19, 2006- Chris Benoit and Gunner Scott beat Booker T and Finlay in a tag team match on SmackDown.
He played football in high school as defensive end.
He's a former member of the WCW Revolution.
His wrestling debut was November 22, 1985.
He is the third shortest WWE World Heavyweight Champion, behind the late Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio.
He has held every major title in WWE except the WWE and European Championships.
He is the first person to retain the World Heavyweight Championship belt in an Iron Man Match.
He helped induct Eddie Guerrero to the WWE Hall of Fame.
Although Benoit had been previously introduced as hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, in 2003 Vince McMahon decided that he was to be introduced as "now residing in Atlanta, Georgia", as Benoit had been living there since his time in WCW. The rationale was that American fans would be more likely to get behind him if he were perceived to be American (the same occurred to Chris Jericho when they started introducing him as "born in Manhasset, New York". Still, Benoit received a hometown hero's welcome when he defended the World Heavyweight Championship in Edmonton at Backlash 2004, where he defeated Shawn Michaels and Triple H in a Triple Threat Match.
Chris Benoit is credited for being the first Royal Rumble winner to use the "contract loophole", where the winner can choose to stay on his brand or move to the other brand and fight the brand's respective World Champion.
Despite the storyline that he is often "passed over" for titles, Benoit has won almost every major WWF/WWE and WCW individual title (including his one-day WCW World Heavyweight Title reign) as well as one-half of every major WWF/WWE, WCW, and ECW tag team championship. The only titles to elude him thus far are the WWE Championship and the defunct WWE European Championship. He is also the only born Canadian to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
Benoit's lost tooth is usually credited to training or an accident early on in his wrestling career. It actually resulted from an accident involving his pet Rottweiler. One day, Benoit was struck with the top of the Rottweiler's head beneath his chin, and his tooth "popped out".
He was a member of the Four Horseman.
He wrestled Kevin Sullivan in an innovative match (GAB'96-Falls Count Anywhere) that everyone now rips off.
He wrestled in 2002's Match of the Year, that was Chris Benoit & Kurt Angle Vs. Rey Mysterio & Edge at No Mercy.
He is married to a women named Nancy Sullivan, who used to be with Benoit's arch rival in the ring Kevin Sullivean.(which later became in real life, because Benoit hooked it up with Sullivans wife, which was only suppose to be a storyline)
He wrestled in Japan, and actually won a Super J Cup tournament.
He learned the "Crippler Crossface" from fellow great technical wrestler Dean Malenko.
Chris Benoit likes using the "Crippler Crossface", the sharpshooter, the diving headbutt, and occasionally, the three amigos to commemorate his late friend, Eddie Guerrero.
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